Technical and Quality Manager France

BOORTMALT is a global malting company with a 3 million tonnes production capacity. The group is present on 5 continents with 27 malting plants. Boortmalt's expertise is widely acknowledged by brewers, distillers, and food industries, who rely on the supply of top-quality barley malts.

The Boortmalt Group is a fully owned subsidiary of the agricultural and agribusiness cooperative Axereal. Our relationship with Axereal, Europe's largest grain cooperative, ensures us access to high-quality barley year-round.

The
Technical &
Quality Manager Spain & France
leads the regional technical and quality team to deliver the quality strategy, ensuring malting sites and products consistently meet standards for quality, food safety, and regulatory compliance.

The role drives a "total quality" culture across the region, aiming to reduce customer complaints and eliminate food safety incidents. With oversight from barley sourcing to final malt applications, the manager focuses on two key areas: strengthening collaboration with operations and engaging with customers. Close interaction with the barley and supply chain teams ensures raw material quality aligns with customer needs, while coordination with production secures contract management and technical Bill of Materials compliance.

Your tasks and responsibilities are:

Quality Leadership

• Contribute to the development of the global quality strategy and governance (quality pillars).
• Ensure effective deployment of global quality standards and best practices across the region.

Quality Systems & Compliance

• Implement, monitor, and maintain quality procedures, certifications, and food safety due diligence.
• Support and lead audits (internal, external, and client) and certification processes.
• Manage approval and updates of client specifications in MaPPS or JDE.

Customer & Market Interface

• Lead quality review meetings with customers and manage the customer complaints process.
• Provide technical support on malt-related issues (including dedicated support for client Damm).
• Assist key account managers with customer relationship management and quotes.

Performance Monitoring & Improvement

• Implement and track KPIs for malt and barley quality performance.
• Conduct root cause analysis and corrective action planning in case of failures.
• Develop and implement continuous quality improvement projects.

Supply Chain & Operations Support

• Collaborate with the barley execution team on supplier management and crop surveys.
• Support operations with quality and food safety specifications for Capex projects.
• Contribute to the Bill of Materials (BOM) and ensure alignment with production requirements.

Team Leadership & Development

• Supervise regional quality specialists, set targets, monitor well-being, and develop training plans.
• Coordinate food safety trainings and foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Representation & Governance

• Act as the regional point of contact for quality support.
• Represent Boortmalt in technical congresses, symposiums, and industry forums.

• Manage the regional and international quality budget.

• Degree in Food Science, Engineering, Chemistry, Agronomy, or related technical field.

• Strong knowledge of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), ISO standards, HACCP, and food safety regulations.
• Experience with certification schemes and regulatory audits.
• Understanding of malting, brewing, or food manufacturing processes.
• Familiarity with raw material quality (barley) and supply chain management.

Leadership & Team Management

• Proven ability to lead regional teams, set targets, and develop training plans.
• Experience in coaching, motivating, and managing specialists across multiple sites.
• Experience managing quality budgets and aligning regional activities with global governance structures.

Customer & Stakeholder Engagement

• Skilled in handling client audits, customer complaints, and technical support.
• Ability to represent the company at congresses, symposiums, and industry forums.
• Analytical & Continuous Improvement Skills
• Competence in KPI monitoring, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.
• Experience in driving continuous improvement projects and embedding a "total quality" culture.

Communication & Representation

• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills to interact with customers, suppliers, and global teams.
• Ability to act as the regional point of contact for quality and technical matters.
• You are fluent in Spanish and English. French is a big plus

We offer an attractive salary and benefits package and as part of a global organization can offer career opportunities internationally. As Masters of Malt we want to be a great employer, focusing on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration and health and wellbeing. We live our values, putting people at the heart of what we do.

"
Strive
" - our ambition is to be the best maltster that's why every day we commit to challenge ourselves to achieve the highest level.

"
Care
" - our strength is magnificent when we care for our earth, our colleagues and our business partners. We encourage trust, respect and treat each other with respect. We believe that Diversity makes us stronger.

"
Inspire
" - We adopt a long-term orientation delivering sustainable performance through innovation and digitization, becoming praised Masters of Malt.

"
Explore
" - thinking out of the box and embracing pioneer ideas to become a source of motivation, we like challenging the status quo to develop full potential.